Silent House by Orhan Pamuk

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If you’ve read any work by the brilliant Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, it’s
likely that it is The Museum of Innocence, a tale of a passion
bordering on an obsession that marks its protagonist Kemal for life. The
novel was his first released in English after Pamuk was awarded the 2006
Nobel Prize in Literature and will continue to be one of his most
recognisable works.

His novels have not been translated in the same order that they were written. Silent
House is Pamuk’s second, published in 1983 when the author was just 30.
It has taken nearly 30 years